Mike Sydney

hahahaha I told you don’t give that donut boyz tag oxygen we can’t have that sticking @XD351 that moniker was below the belt, I’d been sulking about it all day, muttering to myself, snapping at the kids… 😂

Cooks river at Tempe, sunrise and sunset Underneath the Wolli Creek bridge , evening and night

Well done mate, you’ll get plenty from here now you’ve busted the first one out. Look how quickly you got the second! The floodgates have opened. Another retrieve you might try for flathead is short fast rolls and sudden stops. Being able to vary your retrieves with different speeds, hop heights, pauses, twitches etc is what I love the most about soft plastics, there’s always something you can do to change things up. Great report @SpeedyGiraffe49 well done.

I fish there heaps at night it’s great to be honest. Lots of bream and flathead near the wharf and tailor under the bridge itself. @linewetter that’s the wharf by the car park last night

BFFs forever @linewetter 😍 😁 Great to meet you too, shame about the donut. A couple of “almosts” with some big splashes at the lure but it wasn’t to be. still, all lures retained and (not counting me) only one crazy person encounter. (An old lady basically body checked @linewetter walking right at him, basically tightroping the ledge in a strange game of chicken). A wild and woolly night but let’s do it again soon.

Yeah they had Velcro I found them on retail shelves at a shop in belfield a few years back but haven’t seen them in stores lately. I got the biggest they had in store (don’t remember the size) but they were very snug, hard to take off I would’ve loved a slightly bigger size.

On gloves, I’ve had the Daiwa DG2223 gloves and they were awesome. Got caught out in a storm one night and they went to pieces when they got soaked though. They could handle regular wet but not total saturation. Great gloves, I used them for both a bit of warmth and mosquito protection. Having thumb and two fingers exposed meant I could still handle line without needing to remove them. Have been meaning to buy another pair. Here’s some photos I can find wearing them.

My take on it is that they have elevated levels of dioxins , higher than many food but almost all dairy has dioxins too so as long it’s only very occasionally why not. One every couple months probably won’t hurt (not a doctor…!) . I’ve eaten flathead from Balmain, but wouldn’t from iron cove as I read that’s particularly polluted too. I think it’s frequency that’s the danger as evident from the recommendations of eating east of the bridge.

@linewetter great fish but that sucks about the rod. Worse, they were on sale last week for $99 at the big snake but the sale has ended from what I see. Should’ve broken it a week ago 😏 Huge Trev that one on 6lb gear. Welcome to the snapped rod club.

Great read. Congrats on so many fish and finding your float again at a different location too!

Happened to me too, can’t recall why, I posted here by taking a screenshot of the old photo and uploading the new screenshot

I worry about hooking cormorants too. My friend hooked a bat which took his lure mid flight in parramatta. I imagine the law would be that it’s accidental by catch and as long as you made reasonable efforts to free it you’d be fine. It’s not like you were targeting them (….right? 😄) Community outrage would be the biggest issue I think. A video on social media or a harrowing picture could raise a lot of anti-fishing sentiment.

Yeah @faker that’s what I was thinking maybe a long mono leader for a bit more stretch as well

Thanks @Steve0. See for me I’ve always found them on artificial lights and had never clicked to targeting them on the full moon. A lot of my losses last couple years was on bream gear 6lb . The losses were just cut line as they hit the lure - a big splash and then slack. I was running 12lb last night mainly to throw heavier lures and didn’t suffer any losses yet. Interesting you say throwing to the edge of light source / edge of the school. I got a lot of hookups / started follows on the light edge but wasn’t consciously targeting those areas, rather it was more the angles available to me from the land spot. If smaller tailor cut more lines than bigger ones, then is the logic that the bigger fish are naturally on the outside edges of the schools (I.e. closest to the bait )

Ah but in my defence Mike only one fish was during work hours 🤣